Angel Francisco Castro-Torres was riding his bicycle in Smyrna, Ga., when he was stopped by two Cobb County police officers. According to their own report, the officers stopped him after observing his race. The officers demanded Castro鈥檚 identification and questioned his immigration status. He was also beaten 鈥� resulting in a broken nose and eye socket 鈥� and arrested. He required surgery to repair the damage to this eye. A settlement agreement was reached nearly nine months after the lawsuit was filed.
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Mississippi authorities took a newborn baby from her Mexican immigrant mother and placed the daughter with two white Gulf Coast lawyers who frequently practiced law before the youth court judge who approved the child鈥檚 removal. The mother was then prohibited from speaking publicly about her family's ordeal despite her request to waive confidentiality rules of the youth court. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the family and appealed the earlier gag order.
The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal class action lawsuit on behalf of more than 350 Filipino teachers who were lured to Louisiana to teach in public schools under the federal H-1B guest worker program. The teachers were cheated out of tens of thousands of dollars and forced into exploitive contracts. A jury in 2012 ordered a labor recruiting firm and its owner to pay $4.5 million in damages to the teachers.
Frantz Pierre, a migrant farmworker from Haiti, was denied compensation by the South Carolina Worker鈥檚 Compensation Commission after falling and breaking his right ankle outside company housing. He had just arrived at the 400-acre tomato farm owned by Seaside Farms on St. Helena Island when he slipped on a wet sidewalk outside the workers鈥� barrack-like dormitory. After the 澳彩开奖 took legal action on Pierre鈥檚 behalf, the South Carolina Supreme Court affirmed Pierre's right to compensation and sent the case back to the lower court.聽
A Latina factory worker in North Carolina was brutally assaulted by the plant manager after she had earlier reported his sexual harassment to officials of the yarn company that employed her, according to a federal court complaint filed by the 澳彩开奖.
New regulations for the nation鈥檚 H-2B guest worker program, enacted in the waning days of the Bush administration, threatened to weaken worker protections and make it easier to replace U.S. workers with temporary foreign labor. The 澳彩开奖 and a coalition of immigrant rights advocates filed a federal lawsuit challenging the new regulations.
A dozen Latino workers at a Tennessee cheese factory went weeks without pay and endured an abusive work environment before demanding paychecks from an employer, who then had them arrested, jailed and threatened with deportation. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit charging the company, its president and members of the local sheriff鈥檚 department with conspiring to violate the rights of the workers.
Migrant farmworker Victor Marquez was traveling to his hometown in Quer茅tero, Mexico, to pay for his new home, only to have his life savings seized by police who alleged it was drug money. During the May 5, 2008, traffic stop in Loxley, Ala., a police officer confiscated more than $19,000 from Marquez even though he earned a majority of the money by working the bean harvest in south Florida. Marquez was not charged. The 澳彩开奖 won the return of the money after the state refused to provide documents and information requested by 澳彩开奖 lawyers representing Marquez.
Immigrant workers hired to repair storm-damaged apartments in New Orleans were routinely cheated out of wages and endured forced labor while living in crowded and dilapidated employer-provided housing. This federal lawsuit brought by the 澳彩开奖, together with the Pro Bono Project and the National Employment Law Project, alleges the employers violated the Fair Labor Standards Act and the Victims of Trafficking Protection Act.
Hundreds of guest workers from India, lured by false promises of permanent U.S. residency, each paid more than $10,000 to obtain temporary jobs at Gulf Coast shipyards only to find themselves subjected to forced labor and living in overcrowded, guarded labor camps. The 澳彩开奖 filed a federal lawsuit on behalf of the workers,聽David v. Signal International, LLC. Three years later, a lawsuit was filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission,聽EEOC v. Signal International, LLC,聽alleging that Signal unlawfully discriminated against the Indian guest workers.聽
